American Writers: A Collection of Literary BiographiesLeonard Unger, A. Walton Litz, Molly Weigel, Lea Bechler, Jay Parini Scribner, 1974 - American literature The four volume set consists of ninety-seven of the pamphlets originally published as the University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers. Some have been revised and updated. |
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... John as a result of her misplaced energies and neu- rotic indisposition ; but she survives into the 1920's as a twisted representative of tradition . The inability of John and Lucy to achieve a sympathetic relationship emphasizes the ...
... John as a result of her misplaced energies and neu- rotic indisposition ; but she survives into the 1920's as a twisted representative of tradition . The inability of John and Lucy to achieve a sympathetic relationship emphasizes the ...
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... John Wild . Chicago : Regnery , 1953 . Dewey , John . " The Vanishing Subject in the Psy- chology of William James , " Journal of Philos- ophy , 37 : 589-99 ( 1940 ) . ( Reprinted in The Problems of Men . New York : Philosophical ...
... John Wild . Chicago : Regnery , 1953 . Dewey , John . " The Vanishing Subject in the Psy- chology of William James , " Journal of Philos- ophy , 37 : 589-99 ( 1940 ) . ( Reprinted in The Problems of Men . New York : Philosophical ...
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... John Griffith London . John London went into one business after another in California . Although he was a man of character and determination , he was re- peatedly ruined , sometimes by the scoundrel- ism of a partner or , more typically ...
... John Griffith London . John London went into one business after another in California . Although he was a man of character and determination , he was re- peatedly ruined , sometimes by the scoundrel- ism of a partner or , more typically ...
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